What Is Life? Is Death Real?
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- So what is the difference between you and a rock? This seems like an easy, even stupid question. But even the smartest people on earth have no idea where to draw the line between living and dead things. Which leads to mind-blowing implications. What is life after all? And is death really a thing? Lets look into it together
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Can I have a reply from Kurzgesagt?
Cooper Freeman no
:(
"So to answer your question officer, i never actually killed that boy"
You killed me with that joke.
Or did you?
@@dedale2610 is that a v sauce reference?
Her Telden Çalıyoruz improve your content, make it more relevant to society, improve qtr resolution.
@@dedale2610 deceased been output
That boy was dead before, inside.
No big deal. Just having an existential crisis.
+NerdSync Don't worry scott, we all know life is from The Presence and The One Above All.
Hi Nerd sync love your vids
Philosophy tends to have that effect on people.
read the link, it gets worse.
cogito ergo sum
The best definition of life I've ever heard is "Something is alive when it knows it doesn't want to die."
Edit: I've been suicidal so I speak from personal experience when I say that suicidal people don't want to die. They just want their pain to end and see suicide as the only way to do that.
I like the defination
The rarest thing is to live, most people exist, that's all
@@coast3087 suicidal people don't want to die enough
Cool, now you've just got to define "knowing" which will inevitable require you to define "consciousness" which will inevitably require you to define "sentience" and/or "sapience". Like, does an amoeba know that it doesn't want to die? What about a plant or a fungus or a mould? All of them are definitely alive, but none of them have brains, which would seem to preclude them from "knowing" something without a particularly broad definition of "knowing" (and even then, its something of a stretch to suggest that they are conscious of the inevitability of their own demise).
@@smockboy I define any type of survival instinct as "knowing".
I use knowing in a very broad and metaphorical way here. It doesn't have to be aware of its own mortality but it has to want to live even if it doesn't have the sentience to understand or even ask why.
Even single celled organisms will run away when under threat and they don't even have brain cells.
That drive to protect one's own existence is how I define "alive" because only a living thing can have that drive.
That definition sucks for plants, amoeba’s and jelly fish etc…
"The DNA which produces the best living thing will stay in the game"
Humans: The DNA which produces the most delicious living thing will stay in the game.
An underappreciated comment.
Underrated comment
I didn't get it
To be fair, in an environment where survival to the next generation requires you to be as delicious as possible, is that not still DNA producing the best living thing for its environment? Humans aren't any different than the millions of other predators, conditions, and competing cohabitating species that creatures in the wild evolve alongside, after all.
Oh, so that is why humans are very delicious to eat.
Do transformers get car insurance or life insurance?
Lava asking the real questions...
They get both. They are living cars!
Lava mind= blown
LOL that's a real Q 😂
Whichever one's cheaper.
Warning: Do not share this video with your depressed friends
Maybe you should, So maybe he/she'll realise that thinking about problems in life has no sense, because life it self is non-sense. Just try to enjoy what you have and try to have fun as possible. Humans in the past spent their life to make our life easier in the present day.
To late •
@@sayavrakadabra but why tho?🤣
or they will die
I watched this and it helps me
A long time ago, had heard somebody say something along the lines of, " We are just chemical reactions so complex that we are aware of it "
That is physically impossible though, unless matter is alive, how the hell can atoms on the periodic table along with electricity and photons generate conciousness? These particles dont have the ability to do so from what we know, so wtf is happening there?
@@derangedcrouton1864 We can't say it's impossible because consciousness has never been defined.
@@derangedcrouton1864 it’s the exact same thing with computers tho, one could say “how tf am I able to play a 3D game put on a 2D screen while listening to music from 50 years ago”. All that is making that happen is either a True or False in a switch. Billions of switch’s. once we are able to create AI with a consensus, how is billions of 1 or 0 different than some chemical processes?
@@scravers5147 easy, writes pixels by pixels dats in three directions and then simulates a camera and what it points to,, I guess?
@Scravers no.. not exactly, computers are advanced sure, but they are understandable, even our bodies and brains can be understood in every process, we are more similar to computers than we'd like to imagine, turning on specific tiny lights at given times takes some really advanced technology, we've made great strides in that area over the past 100 years from when circuitry was first invented, and humans largely work the same way, we need electricy to function, our body is comprised of machinery that is so small and so advanced its almost impossible to comprehend how efficiently it works, but like computers we have coding as well (dna) bad code creates glitches (mutations) we can't function if we're too cold or too hot we have a heating and cooling system, our energy is derived from compatible fuel sources, we run on so much energy that compared to a regular computer we degrade over a number of decades, like we run on so much energy that our bodies are constantly warm, and our brains perform very basic functions driven by complex machinery... but none of this, not a single thing that I mentioned... explains this machines ability to experience and be an individual everything else is physically possible and explainable with biology, chemistry and physics... not conciousness... also funny thing you already know what it's like to die: 1: you were dead before birth, 2: you die everytime you go to sleep and don't dream, (if youre dreaming you're still partially conciouss, meaning your brain isn't actually properly sleeping but do dip in and out) your conciouss self is essentially gone, which is why when you wake up you don't even remember falling asleep, nor do you remember sleeping, because none of the physical functions of the brain are being used which is of course: memory, vision, hearing etc. That state, where you dont remember a thing, thats what death is like, you won't even know you're dead, when people joke that dead people are just sleeping that isnt a joke, that's actually the truth, your body is just incapable of waking you up again. You can destroy the machine... but what tf was the machine being driven by.. People are iffy when it comes to souls because they say its not scientific but... if such a thing exists, it would be scientific fact, you cant prove it though because if the physical universe can't explain consciousness, then such a thing wouldn't exist in the physical world.. that being said I think all religions are completely wrong and such a thing if it exists, would not be connected to an afterlife or gods or legends, but to an isolated phenomena. Lemme know what you think.
“Thinking about questions like this gives us some comfort”
Not true at all. Thinking about this stuff terrifies me but I still do it all the time.
same here
Brain: You need to study for finals.
Me: ... What is Life? Is Death Real?
LMAOO LOVE THIS,, btw goodluck in your exams!!! :))
@@kencst thanks bro. They went alright :)) I will keep your luck for the future
👍sure bro!
Life hack: study philosophy
@@kencst first calc quiz Tuesday I'm calling it in
Whats the difference between life and a pencil?
A pencil has a point.
Kakashi Hatake Susan Wojkiji Dont like me? My cat is named kiki. I just made a jacksfilms rap for you.
haha 😋
This comment deserves an award.
Kakashi Hatake oh snap
Sad but true
The good thing is that we'll all know the answer. That's the bad thing too. 😊
Wat is it
@@axoindacrib7546 Rasengan
How shall we know, since we’ll have no more perception?
@@Weird_ZSTG average japanese cartoon watcher
@@ahsan.v8
Bruh That is called anime.
Their is a difference between Cartoon and Anime.
Anime is generally from 14-24
Cartoon is for kids.
Anime varies in all spheres.
I personally don't like all animes.
But their are good ones like Naruto and Boruto.
Which teach you about life and reality.
Most people die at 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.
-Benjamin Franklin
I'm having an existential crisis right now.
same
Ha! I'm having the opposite. Ever since I was young (about six) I new that life was useless and I had no purpose. Now I know we die because we need other cells to live. And that fact gives me great joy! All my life I've been depressed and slowly going insane in till this video. Kinda like the light at the end of the tunnel. :3
+she-wolfs b your purpose is to die?
+Jombo I'm lvining an existential crisis
+Jombo Just know this: everything you consider as life is a collection of data, through memory, that can actively be questioned/manipulated by conscious thought. Now, that effectively means "conscious life" is the questioning of it: that struggle, to abstract from instinct when instinct is all that's needed. It also means "life" is effectively the making memories that stand the test of time. Think of the concept of memes from mgs4...
If you want to live in humanity, but suffer alot, make cool ideas and think. If you want to have a good physical life, not suffer, and live in the moment, then don't think, and have faith.
"The Existential Crisis Playlist"
@ᎷᎯᏠᎠ wow
That’s why there’s a famous phrase “I think therefore I am” which means - you can only know for sure that you’re thinking so therefore u exist :)
This reminds me of my first classes in biology and it’s making me all warm and fuzzy inside.
This video turned me into a black hole
“It’s thinking about questions like this that makes us alive, and gives us some comfort.”
*Comfort? Because of this video I am having an existential crisis on the floor.*
legit same
*How's that crisis coming along for you?*
@@WordUnheard mines still going
@@cryptic6897
Try DMT. It will deconstruct you on an atomic level, and vomit you back into reality. Whether or not it helps you deal with videos like this, is entirely up to you and how you interpret your experience.
@@WordUnheard Born 2 early to travel the stars 😥
you should rename this channel "mindfuck"
+spagetti001 lol ikr
Hahahaha! Indeed!
yup
Ironic, since "Kurz gesagt" means "in short" or "in a nutshell (as stated in the subtitle of this channel "Kurzgesagt - in a nutshell")" which is supposed to mean "a simpler and easier to understand explanation"...
+Agnostic Alchemist
What can really freak people out, is the idea that this IS the "simple" explanation...
Ahhh, "Leaving Science and entering Philosophy". 💚 It happens to anyone who asks too many questions... and it's not a bad thing! A lot of my Philosophy professors started in a "hard science", but Math and Logic have their limits, and Philosophy is where one goes to test them.
I love these videos, they always are a good way to get me thinking.
say that in 1966 china
Sorry, I'm not following, how are you connecting the Cultural Revolution to my comment?
It’s nice to know that there is channel that shares the thoughts I have since I was 10 years old, now I feel less alone
You’re not special, everyone thinks these things
@@oscarjensen5820 actually, they are special. You, on the other hand…
@@brianestepa2376 what are you trying to say sir
I’ve had these thoughts for a little while too which is why philosophy is so darn interesting 🤔
Not alone my guy everyone thinks abt this stuff
The fun part is that it doesn't give the answer but rather adding more questions for you to think
thank you, Dio Brando, the fictional character from the popular anime and manga series 'JoJo's Bizarre Adventure' created by Hirohiko Araki!
@@liamk3451 cringe
I like to think that life is something that is evolving (by selection and stuff). So the humanity is alive but single human not, we are the part of life, like brick is a part of building.
@@bilalabdel5907 your name is bilal buddy💀
@@liamk3451 your name is Liam Buddy 🤡
Hmmm, so the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell?
yes... But how can they reproduce and fuel the cells if they are dead?
+wendi4y they burn fuel from food, as soon as glucose (fuel from the food) (h6 c12 o6) gets into the mitochondria the reaction happens like fueling a car and starting the engine
Also our cells copy it's D.N.A. for it
Darkk mane meme it better be
Fish Can't Roll exactly
This might actually be the most thought provoking Kurzgesagt video I've seen yet. I mean, the part at the end really hit me. Everything in the universe is made of the same stuff, so either everything is living or everything is dead. This makes me think that overall life is solely about complexity. And if this is true, does that mean that everything that exists has conscious, just maybe on an immeasurable scale? We know that animals have conscious, we know that insects do as well, but does this ever stop? Does conscious exist in everything, but in most things it's too small for us to understand?
or is everything unconcious but just work in a certain way combined in different complexities of cells and materials. Is your pc concious when it runs different parts and you see windows or are you seeing electrical parts work together to display pixels in a certain way using electricity.
This could work as a definition of GOD- We are just one of the immeasurable cells of god. More complexity more consciousness.
@@carlosgil9886 sorry... no, that's not at all what I meant. This is a scientific youtube channel.
@@joshuaholmberg2042 C'mon science is not opposite to god concept. Many scientists were believers of some kind of supreme entity. Of course that's not what you meant, is my own complementary idea, which is an old idea about the concept of god. There's a lot of examples in literature, movies, philosophy, etc. Check it out, your comment is very close to that idea of consciousness - god. God as complexity is the ultimate, maybe infinit unification of everything that exists in the universe and we are part of it.
@@carlosgil9886 true that science isn't *opposite* to god, but they definitely aren't too similar, because science is fact based and God is just belief. And now rereading my comment, I didn't actually mean "consciousness", just "life/being alive", not being sentient. And yes, many scientists were believers of God, but that's mostly in older times when if you didn't believe then you could be imprisoned or worse (Galileo, for example). And tbh I don't really wanna get into an internet argument, so we can just respect each other's separate opinions on this.
As where on a physical realm, we will never really get to study the properties of the spiritual realm, what we see is only the realm of the intersection of the four laws of Physics -time, space, force, and matter. As a matter of fact, Science is a body of knowledge but the nature of science is it can't provide answers to all questions.
What makes life life is its existence, its complexity, and the smart design that even the binary code of the computer is no match to the quarternary code of the DNA which points that a creator being is existent and made everything according to His good purpose, pleasure and will.
MITOCHONDRIA IS THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL
Clay Anton lolol
What does this reference?
Nothing, it's just the only thing every American student ever remembers from high school biology class.
I think it's Darkk Mane thing
Clay Anton anakin has so much mitochondrias.
Honestly...this whole channel freaks me out, but I can't stop watching their videos...
+Hollyamber3 so true ^^
+Hollyamber3 me in a nutshell, and then when you've seen all, you'll see them again and again and again
Just as the capacity to ask questions gives us comfort, you may take comfort in knowing you will probably be "dead" and know the answer before this topic becomes actively relevant in most society... Unless you live in or near a religiously extremist community, then prepare to have problems. Death is like that guaranteed trip to the unknown, something for which to look forward while we struggle to make something of life.
why does it freak you out? lol i find this channel soo interesting, i always sub to education channel's XD
+Hollyamber3 I just found this channel and I am having a similar experience. Lol
We should not confuse life with consciousness.
Also, amazing video!
I wonder. If life can arguably exist without consciousness and we know we are living, conscious things, then if 2 out of 3 combinations are true, why wouldn't the third combination ( consciousness sin life) also be true. Damn.
What is consciousness? and where does it come from?
If only I had the answer!
"Indeed, if you could see that has been seen by those of you who have died, you would be puzzled and
troubled. Then you would have listened and obeyed; but what they have seen is yet curtained off from
you. Shortly, the curtain would be thrown off. You have been shown, provided you see and you have
been made to listen provided you listen, and you have been guided if you accept guidance."
"The greatest illusion is that of separation" -Albert Einstein
+Mondestrasz so vary true
i dont see anything wong with it either, illusions are fun
I agree, however our atoms are constantly changing and 98% of what makes up you now is totally different from what was a year ago. It's all one process of atoms dancing around and forming systems like us.
Yeah it was just a quote from einstein to play with, i dont want to convert anyone to it. I'm not entirely sure myself of its meaning.
Since we're having this discussion, I support the notion that the universe is probabilistic. Determined seems very weird to me, i mean when was everything determined? and how? Was it at the moment of the big bang? Nah probabilities seem like such a better way to explain things than determinism, at least to me. Same reason i believe there is free will, it just seems easier that way.
+Baba Kris I haven't seen the anime yet, if it has quotes from Einstein I would love to see it
*These were the questions that ran through my head when my mother confiscated my N64 controller*
lol
This comment deserves WAY more attention.
@@governor1386 ikr lets like
Haha
Yeah that's what they all say and will say in this crazy but bizare world full of questions that only mean anything to humans like answers but ist pointless to knowhat is life rather than death science can't bexplain our existence but the universe is not about life it's all about nothing thus created by law of the universeto into something,life is weird or consioness,Who created life?we might never know and why should you wanna know life is a Infinte in the universe.
What is life? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me. No more
i was just thinking about the same thing lol
Thank you! I definetly needed to see this today.
I'm feeling calmer now.
I feel like I'm a test subject surrounded by robots claiming to be the same species as me.
Thats called schizophrenia
Penguin's Corner get mental help
BZZZT. Test Subject #1337 analysis complete. Diagnosis: Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
Nobody tell him
The Doge I won't.....
I came here looking for answers, now I am crying on the floor asking to me what's reality
the red pill never was for the faint hearted
Reality is 9-5 job paying morgage, bills, maybe procreate get married, get old die...thats usually 60-80 years give or take. Rinse repeat your bloodline till our earths next ice age which we probably won't survive then in billion years another intelligent life will emerge from the planet again and in another 10 billion yrs the sun will white dwarf and earth will die I don't think the next inhabitants will be prepared for that outcome.
Whatever you see it as.
weak piece of shit
me 2
Please remember everyday that during this life and after it you deserve being in peace forever!❤🕊️
“Is everything Alive? Is death even real? Are computers li-“
“Homework” Folders: “Why am I here… just to suffer…”
well its programmed but exist just like we do :D
xD
*Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell*
+Gabriel Leão o no
+Gabriel Leão i was hunting for this comment :DDD
+Gabriel Leão was looking for this comment
+Gabriel Leão
*are
or
*mitochondrion
Wolf Edmunds oh
Life is fundamentally different from dead stuff.
(Vsauce theme plays)
*Or is it?*
watching food reviews at 2am swap the areas of (vsauce theme plays) and “or is it” then it would be perfect
I'd like to see this man against vsauce in a debate
@bing bingbung in your dreams
exrub1a that you bro?
@D. Engelbrecht As a kid, I've always thought of life as things that are made up of cells. Then, I remember that cells are supposedly alive too.
8 years on and this video still put me in the deep end
Wow, this is amazing. Put together so we'll. From the animation, to word usage, and even the music.
This guy makes me feel smart and dumb at the same time😂😂😂
😂😂
learning
Indeed
Why are u describing v sauce
He's just a narrator for all the smart people behind these videos.
But yes.
I am very confused.
And he said the things that confused me.
So he is the one who confused me, yet he wasn't who wrote the script which confused me.
Did the people who made the script confuse me?
Maybe it was the minds behind any research put into this...
Maybe it's the person who came up with the idea of this video...
Maybe it's the concepts discussed in the video...
Maybe it's TH-cam, because they hosted the video and are the reason I can watch it...
Maybe we don't even know who confused me and you.
baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more..
Tim Stahel what is love
Tim Stahel DUDE! I wanted to write that comment!!!!!!
Khalid Ansari yea, loominarty
Tim Stahel I almost did that. Now I feel stupid for thinking that might actually seem clever
anyone noticed Pikachu at 4.35 minutes
That pickachu though, hilarious
Very good video and that too on such a complex question. The best part of it was that it was thought provoking with many questions people can think on even without a scientific background, it was both philosophical and logical. We need more such curious people
I love how music is responsive to content in this channel!
This is clearly a European series. There's none of the pandering to religious sensibilities you'd see in a script written by/for us Americans. It's refreshing!
***** This is religious stuff dumb.
Xavier López THIS video is about science, not Stupid religion
Montgomery Bermann Using scientific words doesn't make this video scientific. But how could you know? You don't even know how to put a photo on your profile, much less distinguish science from religious propaganda.
*****
Wow you guys are salty.
***** I'll give you definitions then. Science is knowledge acquired through repetitive experiments. They are facts that can be explained through theories and predictions. Scientific theory is something that can be overthrown by new theories, e.g. model of atom. Scientific experiments can be repeated like water always boils at 100C.
Religion is miracles recorded by humans in way of book or speech. There is no way of repeating the demonstrations.
**In conclusion: The video is scientific.**
I hate it when people say AI will never be a thing because we're "just different". No we aren't. We're just computers made of goo.
+Nerdsoft True :D We are no different from anything else, we are not "Special".
+Nerdsoft We ARE the Grey Goo scenario! Except we aren't nanobots.
+Diego Rodriguez Goo part? Basically, we're structure that uses and directs energy to allow us to think. If we make AI, it'd be the same, a structure that uses and directs energy to think.
+Octillerysnacker but we're made of nanobots
Michelet Dickenson
True.
Please every day remember you that you deserve PEACE forever during this life and afterlife, and so it will be ❤🕊️
I've always been on the atheist/deist side of the fence, and I love your videos, but boy you all give me an existential crisis. The thought of no longer existing and never having remembered you even existed in the first place is by far the most plausible result, but also the most terrifying.
If we can not prove that anyone besides ourselves actually has consciousness, how can we prove that an artificial intelligence does not have consciousness?
(I'm surprised this comment blew up)
should i rephrase that?
I'd argue that because we can see and measure and understand every single process that occur in an AIs "brain" we could determine whether it does or doesn't have a conscious. the real question is probably "what is consciousness"
Yeah and since we dont even know what is consciousness, who's to say a robot has none.
The same way we've come to believe animals to be conscious, by comparing them to ourselves. Its not perfect but its all we have.
DUDE i think about this sometimes and I know this is a bit extreme but what if everyone in this world, or even the world itself is all a figment of our imagination and you have created it all just to make yourself seem surrounded by other self-conscious beings? like
This video gave me an existential crisis.
Robert Adan This video didn't help my ongoing existential crisis at all - I'm just going to continue believing we're the self replicating microbial biological robots of some other far away race which on earth glitched and began following the complex hill climbing algorithm known as evolution... somehow producing self aware life.
Robert Adan i went through a existential crisis and trust me, the best thing to do is to not care (i know it sounds counter-productive)
Robert Adan contrast and compare to empathy, continue
Robert Adan
Been There
That's because they are Trying to Quantify Life.
Let it Go.
Trust me some much more ''Intelligent'' Forces (God) defined something (Existence) that we can't yet fully understand.
Just live your Life. Enjoy the Ride.
The Spectator cant do anything about it anyway
The Conclusion couldn't have been more beautiful ❤️ Thankyou 🍻
I'd argue that the "magic" of humanity is mostly just in the idea that we've gone from being self-aware, to basically being aware of *everything*. The fact that we have the capability to understand and question our own role in the universe, and that the only other sort of being we've witnessed that engages with consciousness and existentialism in the same way is something we're in the process of CREATING shows something "Special" about humanity.
Granted, there may be other species out there in the universe with similar understandings, but that doesn't make us less special. That just means that there are other groups that are just as special as us.
Ahh morning coffee and a bite of existential crisis.. perfect start of the day..
A bite of Existenal crises I see I what you did there lol.
funny guy
uh... uh... uh... the music is very good?
Erhmm, n-nice we-weather isn't it? Oh haha ner-nervous, me? No! LOOK A BIRD!
TheBirdThatWhistles BRAIN CRASHED........TOO MUCH INFORMATION........ REBOOTING..........
TheBirdThatWhistles really?
MY -TRANSISTORS- MIND HAS -FRIED- BEING BLOWN.
I AM CURRENTLY -REBOOTING- DOING NOTHING.
www.reddit.com/r/totallynotrobots/
A FELLOW HUMAN LIKE ME IS HERE! BEWARE, THOUGH. THERE ARE ROBOTS ABOUT
2:58 hats up to mitochondria; traded their life for our lives. Respect 🙏
I think is one of the best video on TH-cam, just thank you so much
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well i guess I'm still new. haven't found the climate change debates yet...
True
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Captain Alpha Yeah. Someone can take a video on any topic and turn it into a religious or climate change debate
hmmm, yes, the floor is made out of floor
But if the floor is made out of a floor?
Then that means that floor is made out of a floor!
and that is made out of a floor!
*Walking away*
And that's a floor!
Your a floor!
*EVERYONE IS A F@%$ING FLOOR!*
floor is fucking atoms
fan 100 bfdi Which are mostly empty space.
fan 100 bfdi yeah, everything is, but it's a bit too vague..
Kholat Cumulonimbus yup, they vibrate a lot
+fan 100 bfdi
So long as the atoms are consensual.
"Everything that kills me, makes me feel alive"
Exactly
Feelings are just illusions
Counting stars?
Very interesting. What fascinates me is that we say we understand the "primal soup" (literal translation from Dutch) where life on earth formed, but we can't reproduce it in a lab, eventhough we say we created the ideal circumstances.
I can feel the religion is the comment section now i'm not even going to look
Brody Doan You feel correct.
Brody Doan You are not a bag of meaningless chemicals. That's what today's naturalistic-only thinking would tell you, but you instinctively know you are not. If the universe came about by random chance and everything is just meaningless, purposeless, blindly bumping chemicals, then things like justice, good, evil, beauty are just an illusion. Yet they do exist. Think about it. The purely materialistic worldview of the universe cannot be true. This is one of the most simplest arguments about it.
Brody Doan Ironically, your comment mentioning religion was the first comment that came up as i scrolled down, in which the subject was religion.
Pierzing.glint1sh7 i never even looked this is most of the comment section for this video that i have read. people replying to my comment.
***** "Because no serious person ever said that we are "a bag of meaningless chemicals", nor that "the universe came about by random chance" and "everything is meaningless, purposeless, blindly bumping chemicals, then things like justice, good, evil, beauty are just an illusion"."
Actually a lot of people say that, and those beliefs themselves are conjectures that equal correlation to causation and being, and they're also based on other conjectures taken for granted.
Should I remind you that if we're just chemicals then things such as knowledge, truth, logic, everything that makes you think that we are chemicals and even thinking itself is just a chemical. Yet what is a chemical? A name to something perceived by a human.
Homy shit dude
"We can't die because we were never alive"
Holy*
*Ayato* *Naoi* mommy*
Schuyler Pablico lol what
*Ayato* *Naoi* How can you kill that which has no life?!? lol
*Ayato* *Naoi* You can edit your comment.
“There are even viruses that invade dead cells and reanimate them.”
Umbrella Corporation: “What’s that now?”
Aaahhhh... There's nothing like a dose of existential crisis from Kurzgesagt video.
Thank you and keep making more.
The problem is that we value life when we should be valuing consciousness.
+Umneriko you and i would get along
Would you tell me why? you don't have to obviously. Just wondering.
+Umneriko I like this guy, he gets it.
+Umneriko nice
+Umneriko So you are saying living beings without consciousness are without value? What even is "consciousness"? Maybe there are living beings out there that have a different, equally "valued" thing...
The Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
+Dinkle Dorf Gorgonzola's ghosm
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him kill me every time. that would be rude.
no, mitochondria can't do anything without the rest
Mitochondria does carry circular DNA, similar to bacteria, separate to the nucleus of a cell (appearently).
they do NOT cary DNA!!!
Some things will always be beyond science.
I always wondered about it as well. The human body is basically a very complex machine. It should be possible to create an AI similar to human.
the problem is, in order to create conscious like ours we should copy ourselves, but is it needed for a better conscious? are we a model example? I think yes, otherwise we are creating an alien species and can get to conflict the ideals.
I think that we are bacteria, but that bacteria is unique... Consciousness is made by the DNA code and in everyone has unique one.
@@CasalGamerGG one day we will be able to upload our mind in to "cloud". And when u die, u (someone close to you and still alive, or goverment of some type) install that in new "machine" or your new body.
That is immortality.
@@zdravkomikulinovic3692 So basically the plot of the tv show Altered Carbon?
@@zdravkomikulinovic3692 it will be us but we wont be concious.
Title: *What is life?*
Me: how tf am I supposed to know I don’t even have one
I'm guess we are zombies. Dead, but alive
Zombies of the system ... because nobody knows how we got here...or where we are going after dust ...the body will turn into dust ..but what happened with the thoughts?@@
I can't tell you because a comment under a TH-cam video is too short for the answer. My advice: stay curious, open minded and stay true to the facts and eventually you get the answer. Ah, and get a life, because it is im portant to use your limited time as a human being. Had to find that out the hard way. But I am not bitter about it. ;)
Oof
Meh
You sound kind of like the narrator from the Stanley Parable. Just sayin'.
That's what it is!
Maddy Martin
...?
Purple Productions I was wondering why his voice sounded so familiar.
Purple Productions And then I realized when I read your comment :P
+Maddy Martin Is it really?
One of their best videos
Thanks to you, Scishow, and Professor Dave, my notion of what counts as alive has been stripped down to "a system that uses energy to stay out of equilibrium and is subject to evolution", and I'm not entirely certain about the evolution requirement.
The fact that I will die at one point no matter how much I try to ignore it by everyday activities makes me want to do good before the end is near ....
I want to know about the life after death.
“Every self will taste death. You will be paid your wages in full on the Day of Rising. Anyone who is distanced from the Fire and admitted to the Garden, has triumphed. The life of this world is only the enjoyment of delusion.” (Quran, 3:185)
Here, Allah reminds us that we all, collectively as a human race, have a shared destiny with death - none can escape it. What remains for us to do, then, is to ensure we are truly living lives worthy of worshipping and loving Allah. We musn’t fall into the trap of believing this temporal world is worth risking our relationship with Allah.
I wouldn't consider it a fact that everyone dies at one point. Eternal life is no science fiction. We just haven't figured out how.
What will end is your human existence but you will continue to exist. So do what good you can do as a human before your human existence ends.
@@ImWeedbtw The Koran claims for itself that it is 'mubeen,' or 'clear,' but if you look at it, you will notice that every fifth sentence or so simply doesn't make sense. Many Muslims-and Orientalists-will tell you otherwise, of course, but the fact is that a fifth of the Koranic text is just incomprehensible. This is what has caused the traditional anxiety regarding translation. If the Koran is not comprehensible-if it can't even be understood in Arabic-then it's not translatable. People fear that. And since the Koran claims repeatedly to be clear but obviously is not-as even speakers of Arabic will tell you-there is a contradiction. Something else must be going on.
this, by far is the best channel on TH-cam
I disagree, filthy d
frank is a god among mortals
Im more of an extra credit fan myself but that is just a question of preference
this and vsauce.
another good one yes!
Andrés Felipe yup.Verry good
I think we're long past the point from which "what is life" is not science but philosophy.
Great video
I love these kind of videos that leave you thinking and wondering questions. In the end, life does have an end, and so do we, we will all rest one day in peace. Yet before that, I love the sorts of questions that we can reflect on throughout our journey, the wanders of space and beauty of other living things, also watching them slowly loose their glow until we all go into eternal sleep.
There's more to life go study more use your intellect try to make sense out of it rather than following blindly all these.
You will be held accountable, remember
Life is a TEST n the main test of this beautiful life is WHO IS THE REAL CREATOR OF EVERYTING.. seek the truth(religion) before death come because God only give one chance
These videos always make me feel small and insignificant. But weirdly in a good kind of stop being afraid of death kind of way
Same
You have nothing to fear from death when nothing is lost by it...
Jacob Freeland
Oof
actually I wasnt afraid of death until now
yeah I know what all of you guys mean and understand but I just can't explain it in words..
What is dead may never die.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie.
And with strange aeons even death may die."
Deepak Narayan But rises again, harder and stronger.
Liridon Bardoniqi talking about viruses?
google that comment and you will find out, probably.
Valar Morghulis!
I saw the title have to say this. Baby don't hurt me don't hurt me no more
I love asking myself, looking it up on the internet and come out with no answer but just way more questions
Very nearly first. -John
Very best, also!
someone should be executively producing right now
Ah goddamit. So close
It is John Green!
Close but no ciggar
NEED. MORE. KURZGESAGT.
*anxiously waits for your next video to be published*
Seeker i wasn't ready while reading all this comment this is so cool :D
Ohh seeker why don't you make another podcast
Big fan Seeker
Agreed
@@Broomful AGREEEEEEEEEEEEED
Very captivating video...presented in a very articulate manner..👍👍😃😃
I think whatever happened in this video - thinking about more questions - is what life itself is, in essence.
It might seem that having all the answers would make life better, but I don't think so. Internet is the best example. We used to think that not having knowledge is the problem, but now because of the internet the problem is "knowledge overload".
Whereas, Being left with more questions made me feel like I want to live until the time I get the answers.
That's why information processing is so fundamental in us.
"We are the universe's way of understanding itself".
And life will keep evolving till it does that. It might understand itself through science or spirituality. Nevertheless, once it is figured out it would perish eventually, because it would not be fun anymore. Just like we restart a video game after completing it. Coz it's no fun, or not for long, after being completed.
Just here to get my daily dose of existential crisis.
2:58 ah yes, the powerhouse of the ce-
3:00: *powerplant*
me: wait what the fu-
My exact thought
We've been jebaited
I feel cheated
they are the same (-_-)
@@sarvagyasrivastvava8460 you are dumb
Student: Is Death real?
Teacher: Let's see...
*Pulls out revolver*
nice one
Great, more questions on my question list
the moment I read that "what is life" my brain immediately goes "baby don't hurt me! don't hurt me! no more!"
lmfao. even tho i know the actual lyric is "love" that song still came to mind lmao. glad im not alone.
It is your satan
Bruh I was singing that out loud when I read this comment, ape minds think alike
same
Same
Or, what if our solar system is an atom, and our galaxy is a molecule, and our universe is a cell of some mega-creature?
raven lord and what if the "mega-creature" is just a very small bacteria in its universe?
raven lord If our whole solar system is an atom, then what are OUR atoms?
^ Solar systems, and so on, and on, and on.
Rodolfo Caires does that mean atoms might have atoms...
Then we are all forming the body of God.
We are everything we are atoms when we die we turn back into all our atoms when can then be made into something else we never truly die
Kurzgesagt is an expert at giving people existential crisis
Seems to me like life and death are illusions, just definitions we impose on our views of the world. I think the only thing that can be said for certain is that 'we are'.
+James James But are we? Wake up Neo.
EL3CTROSLAP
The argument is irrelevant either way. I only feel that if the answer was, "we are not," I would be experiencing anything at all. I never said the world or any experience the individual has is real. The only true statement you can say is, "I am." There's no way of knowing if there's anything outside of yourself, at least through the facet of the mind.
+James James you should read 'The disappearance of the universe' by Gary Renard. Explains all the answers to these questions you ask.
Elly du Toit
Thank you, I'll look it up.
Don't you mean "I am" we could all be in your head for all you know.
before video: christian.
after video: athiest. i swear to god thats how it happened.
+J2amirez cringe
+J2amirez
Cringe
***** exactly.
You were never a Christian brother if you lost your faith so quickly
+Ben Cadet (the pastafarian) but you swore to god bro whats that supposed to mean
What is life and death? How can it be defined? It's a really philosophical and scary fundamental question. It's so touching to be able to see the problems that I've always been thinking about on TH-cam. Thank you for telling me a good subject.
I recommend one article for read.. What is the Purpose of Life Islam Guide
@@izoefendi7278 ooo my man really want 72 virgins i think 🙃, gd luck with flying horse fantasy bitvh
Convert to islam and preach a child MOLESTOR as prophet, u will find the true meaning 😪
@@_emminowithoutl4995 My brother in humanity, that is not a nice thing to say. If you're gonna have a bad opinion on our religion or prophet(s), keep it to yourself. We don't need to hear it.
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "He who believes in Allah and the Last Day must either speak good or remain silent."
It's fine if you are not interested in Islam, but at least do some research to be informed before saying things are straight up untrue.
قال الله "وإن من شئ إلا يسبح بحمده ولكن لا تفقهون تسبيحهم"
Kurzgesagt: Giving people depression since 2013
Lol..
Ha.Funny.
@@samairahossain9177 shut tf up
Lmao
@who am I ?? some toxic religious bullsh*t
Its called the circle of life because its pointless
Oh it has many points, it's just that any point you start from takes you back to the beginning
i tried to be funny
@@mikeaft3585 i mean, youre not wrong
The circle of life either is pointless or has an infinite number of points, depending on your point of view...
@@trashlambo youve got a point
No pun intended
I love this thread
Even though cells are so small that they cannot be seen without a microscope and cannot be felt at all, 1 decillion of them would still look mind-bogglingly massive to a person.